Monthly Archives: January 2015

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Let’s face it, drones get a bad press. But their usefulness truly has yet to be fully appreciated.

In Ireland, we bemoan the weather a lot but outside of towns and cities we know there are treasures to behold no matter how bad the climate.

Our epic landscapes and vistas have been wonderfully explored in this fantastic video where drones explore our amazing coastline with freedom.

Most people only appreciate this beauty on the ground looking out to sea. But drones have got the view that only seabirds had until now.

Thanks to 21st century technology coastal vistas from a bird’s point of view are now possible and today we show you wonderful scenes that include the coastlines of Donegal, Sligo, Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Galway and Mayo from the very vantage point of a drone as part of a Wild Atlantic Way video.

Cloud computing and SAP’s Hana in-memory database can be a powerful combination for data analysis, and new tools could help to make sure it doesn’t fall down on the job.

On Friday, NEC released a tool designed to make life easier for data analysts by boosting Hana availability in the cloud.

Focusing in particular on users of the Amazon Web Services cloud, the new tool takes advantage of NEC’s ExpressCluster software. The tool can automatically detect system faults as SAP Hana runs on AWS and switch over to a standby server when problems arise. The result, NEC said, is to shorten downtime and improve both availability and operational efficiency.